Elias Teikari
Hello hello! I'm an Estonian 20 year old hustler and nice guy.
TLDR
- Produced a song for Škoda at 16 years old
- OpenAI featured my hackathon project in an article
- Made an SVG benchmark for AI models, collected 3.2 million human opinions
- People find me useful for my taste.
It all started with Music
- Produced music for big clients, like Škoda at 16 years old
- I signed to a record label (FAAR Music) at 17 years old, proof of my immaculate taste.
- Produced and written with songwriters, who have made hits for Beyoncé, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber.
- Produced a song that is going to be released by one of the biggest K-pop bands, TWS (over 500,000,000 streams total)
- Flown around the world to participate in 12 international songwriting/producing camps in South Korea, Norway, Lithuania, Sweden and Estonia.
- My favorite song I've produced
Cool first company I built in 11th grade
- Best Student Company in Estonia 2024 “Nullivann”
- Represented Estonia in the Best Student Company in Europe competition Gen-E 2024
- Programmed a website for my student company that went on to win the E-Commerce Union's “Best Website Award” (1000 EUR prize)
Cooler second company I built in my first semester (spoiler: it failed ;( )
- AI music tool for music producers, first AI-first workflow to produce music in a DAW
- Pitched weekly to a room of 30, including unicorn founders, and monthly to crowds of 300+ VCs and founders
- Participated in Estonia's biggest startup launchpad ruum (backed by founders of Wise, Bolt and Skype)
Floating around phase, second semester (hackathon era)
- Got selected in to nullfellows.com (<1% acceptance rate)
- Won the NullHack Hackathon, powered by Anthropic and Lovable. Got flown out to San Francisco as the prize
- Won the President's EdTech Hackathon (6000€ prize), the project is still operating as a non-profit with a team of 10 people.
- OpenAI featured the project in their article
- OpenAI has kept in close contact helping us in giving teachers back their time
Coolest company Rapidata.ai
- The best access to human annotations for frontier AI model providers
- Helping benchmark.ai to become the main benchmark
- Collected over 3,200,000 human opinions on SVGs (Hugging Face dataset), my dataset has over 14,000 downloads